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New edition presents progress made to practices, additional case studies, and emerging issues, for coastal scientists, engineers, planners.
List of contents
1. The Need for Restoration; 2. Beach Nourishment and Impacts; 3. Dune Building Practices and Impacts; 4. Restoring Processes, Structure and Functions; 5. Altering or Removing Shore Protection Structures; 6. Options in Spatially Restricted Environments; 7. Stakeholder Interests, Conflicts and Cooperation; 8. A Locally Based Program for Beach and Dune Restoration; 9. Research Needs; References; Index.
About the author
Karl F. Nordstrom is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. He has 45 years of experience in conducting coastal research. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America. His books include Estuarine Beaches, Beaches and Dunes of Developed Coasts and Beach and Dune Restoration. He has published over 160 scholarly articles.Nancy L. Jackson is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She has 30 years of research experience on beach and dune systems. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America, and a past Fulbright Distinguished Chair and Scholar. She has published over 100 scholarly articles.
Summary
This book continues the themes of the first edition: the need to restore the biodiversity, ecosystem health, and ecosystem services provided by coastal landforms and habitats. It reports on progress made to practices, presents additional case studies, and addresses new and emerging issues, for coastal scientists, engineers, planners, and managers.
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'An urgent need to understand practical steps to manage the ocean–land boundary has arrived. With sea level rise and rapid urbanization, landowners, governmental managers, and designers must quickly find the best solutions to maintain functioning and valuable sandy shorelines. The authors give us the many perspectives of stakeholders from small to regional scales. This book is an invaluable compendium of coastal issues and solutions that are pragmatic for different landforms and social settings. The comprehensive discussion of hard and soft solutions for protecting changing coastlines details the constraints and compromises necessary to manage shorelines. The perspectives from biology, geology, ecology, economics, and the regulatory world are richly detailed, showing the wide perspective that is needed. The value of ecological solutions is detailed but the constraints on restoration ecology in our modern world are frankly presented. This book is the best manual now available to understand the interdisciplinary approach that must be taken for a sustainable shoreline future. As a text for advanced education or as a desktop encyclopedia for regulators and shoreline professionals, this Nordstrom and Jackson new edition is our best guide to designing and managing sea-land edges. References and case studies are from around the world, giving the volume the widest application.' Steven N. Handel, Rutgers University; Editor, Ecological Restoration
